Having goals can be so powerful for us to have that motivation you describe. To be able to discern when there might be something new that is beyond our current understanding, I think, is really fascinating. You let students choose their own pathway. And that's what's make what makes it unique for everyone to to be here to learn and to grow and to nourish. That's actually what should be because we're not a machine or not even the I learned so how about us as humans we should learn.
Yasser Tamer discusses ways of being intentionally inclusive on episode 477 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Students are not actually advised to memorize or even to learn a theory by heart, but they are advised to reflect.
-Yasser Tamer
Do whatever you are interested in.
-Yasser Tamer
Let students choose their own pathway.
-Yasser Tamer
It is equitable, but let’s make it more accessible.
-Yasser Tamer
Resources
- Cultivating Compassionate Community to Foster Academic Integrity? (with @YasserTammer), by Maha Bali
- Video: MYFest22 Syllabus Accessibility Jam with Alexandra Gazis and Yasser Tamer
- Video: The Experience of a Visually Impaired Student Yasser Tamer, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
- Business Model You: The One-Page Way to Reinvent Your Work at Any Stage, by Bruce Hazen, Timothy Clark, Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, + Alan Smith*
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen Covey*
- Soliya
- Intentionally Equitable Hospitality series through Equity Unbound
- Write Good ALT text
- Syllabus as Manifesto: A Critical Approach to Classroom Culture, by Adam Heidebrink-Bruno